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Deal Alerts no longer working for me

27 26 October 4, 2025 at 11:56 AM
My deal alerts stopped working a while ago. The most basic one is "quicken." It no longer triggers.

I saw the home page had a Sam's Club membership for $15 (personalized section) or $20 ("front page slickdeals" section)

I also saw this guide on making better alerts: https://slickdeals.net/forums/showpost.php?p=67718300&postcount=540

I created an alert and kept making it more generic until I got to: @title membership

I was warned it would send many triggers. But when I ran it, "your deal matches" had zero hits. Even though I was staring at active sam's club memberships if I did a manual search.

Has the deal alert function just completely broken? Thank you.
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SpaceCallahan | Staff
10-05-2025 at 07:38 AM.
10-05-2025 at 07:38 AM.
Moved this post to the site issues forum so the tech team can see it
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lefty13rent
10-05-2025 at 08:17 AM.
10-05-2025 at 08:17 AM.
Same issue here - I also get zero hits on any of my existing or new alert triggers. It looks like it stopped working on September 20th - I've received no alert emails since 9/19, and before that I at least got two summary emails per day.
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JoeBlowAZ
10-07-2025 at 07:07 PM.
10-07-2025 at 07:07 PM.
Quote from SpaceCallahan :
Moved this post to the site issues forum so the tech team can see it
Thank you.
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JoeBlowAZ
10-07-2025 at 07:59 PM.
10-07-2025 at 07:59 PM.
I have had a trigger happen since posting this -- Nord VPN worked. I had the existing trigger shown below:
nordvpn|"nord vpn"
I cannot edit existing deals which is odd, I have to delete and recreate them. I recreated my sam's club as shown below. I'll see if I got the trigger correct next time I run a manual check.
@title (membership club) | sam
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digidad
10-08-2025 at 07:19 AM.
10-08-2025 at 07:19 AM.
Desktop Browser Viewing -

When bookmarked/visiting from main page, alerts would appear as tiles in lower-right of screen.The alert push notifications stopped a week or two ago.

Now, when visiting main page, nothing. But if you click on deal alerts icon on top right-middle screen, they then populate.
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panther0827
10-30-2025 at 05:02 AM.
10-30-2025 at 05:02 AM.
I also noticed that I wasn't receiving alerts lately. I thought maybe there were no deals on DeWalt tools lately (usually several per week). I did a manual search with the same criteria and got lots of hits, so I knew the alert was broken. I edited the alert (didn't change the original search criteria, just the deal level 5+ to FP just to trigger a change) and resaved. It started working again as expected. I edited a few other alerts, but they are less frequent result yielding, so I don't know if it fixed them yet.
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JoeBlowAZ
Yesterday at 09:34 PM.
Yesterday at 09:34 PM.
I'll agree with the above, it appears to be working again. I don't know if it was recreating searches, or if the page maintainers did something, but I'm getting alerts again.
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